This paper uses a new, 2005/06 nationally-representative household survey to analyze the impact of internal remittances … (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To control … variations in migration networks and remittances among various ethno-religious groups in Ghana. The paper finds that both …

Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances …

remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general, "welfare") as well as difficulties confronting … remittances implies a need to carefully spell out the rationale for interventions. It also notices the lack of good migration data …

and remittances play an important role in transforming the structure of rural household income. This paper examines the … household survey. Since remittances are a potential substitute for farm income, the paper presents counterfactual scenarios of … remittances. …

This paper uses a set of national household surveys to study the regional Sub-Saharan Africa distribution of … among persons in Africa into context with the disparities that exist within and between African countries. Regional …

This paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. The authors examine …

High inequality in Africa is something of a paradox: Africa should be a low-inequality continent according to the …, despite the introduction of several political variables, there is still an inequality-increasing "Africa effect" linked to …

This paper studies the question of whether exchange rate policy affects the impact of remittances on economic growth in … regime classification, whereas the data for remittances and all other variables are from the World Bank's World Development … economic growth following an increase in remittances, but also that the impact of remittances on growth is positive under a …